Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed by Congress in 1854, created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowing settlers in these areas to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery there. The act arose from proposals in the early 1850s, for ...

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